if Daniel Craig ever quits being James Bond, Mr. Biden should maybe for the part!

I AGREE...COMPLETELY...AND HIS WIFE, DR. JILL, COULD QUALIFY AS A BOND GIRL. IN THAT COUPLE, WE'VE GOT BRAINS AND COURAGE AS WELL AS SEXY LOOKS! SURE BEATS THE HELL OUT OF ANYTHING THE REPUBS HAVE BEEN SHOWING UP WITH ON THEIR SILLY LITTLE STAGES. MITT WALKS LIKE HE'S GOT A VERY ROUGH COB UP HIS ASS. I SWEAR HIS WIFE IS TRYING TO UPSTAGE MAMIE EISENHOWER IN WEARING PINK ALL THE TIME!

OH...AND DID YOU SEE ED SHULTZ EXPOSING PAUL RYAN'S FAILED PHOTO OP AT THE ST. VINCENT DE PAUL'S SOUP KITCHEN?????????? Their aprons were starched, pressed, and didn't have a spot on them, and neither did the pots and pans little Paul was pretending to be washing! The workers had already cleaned everything up!!!!!!!!!!!!

VIDEO: GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan stopped at a soup kitchen in Youngstown, Ohio on Saturday, where he and members of his family washed dishes for several minutes. The head of the charity has since come out saying Ryan’s visit violated the organization’s apolitical status, and that Ryan “just came in here to get his picture taken.”

The comments at the link are worth reading, too....especially this one:

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The only soup kitchen Romney would get near is the corporate boardroom of Campbell's Soup, telling them he's mounting a hostile takeover.

I THOUGHT something was wrong with the way Willard was walking around; every time I see him from now on, I'll think about your comment and crack up!

Ed Schultz is one of the Good Guys, too. He does fine work and and pounds on those rightwing robots without mercy. (Maybe Rachel's been giving him lessons!) He had a super segment yesterday about the Sensata plant in Freeport, Illinois that Mitt's Bain Capital took over and is RIGHT NOW shipping over to China lock, stock and barrel. It was a heartbreaker when Ed started interviewing the protesters who were out there who were watching their lives being outsourced in real time.

And as for Paul Ryan's silly photo op washing clean pans for the camera after bullying his way into the place...I can't help feeling its so wholly typical of that little dirtbag! The problem is that donations to that particular soup kitchen have started declining because contributors didn't like that entire affair. Phooey.

Take care and be well.

New Daniel Craig James Bond movie--titledSkyfall--coming next month! (And if you haven't managed to catch Craig in Cowboys and Aliens yet, be sure you do so. All over cable and satellite tv now. It's just as weird as you'd expect with that title...but good fun and our hero has a very Steve McQueen-like presence in it! Extra bonus deliciousness with Harrison Ford as an old hard-bitten rancher.)

2. In the same speech, Romney said Obama only filed "one" action "against China."

That's not even close to being true.

3. In this week's town-hall debate, Romney claimed, "I want to make sure we keep our Pell Grant program growing. We're also going to have our loan program so that people are able to afford school."

We know this isn't true, because he vowed to do the exact opposite in March. What's more, Romney also endorsed Paul Ryan's budget plan, which cuts Pell Grants.

4. Romney also argued, "We have fewer people working today than we had when the president took office."

No matter when we start the clock, there's a net jobs increase under Obama, both overall and in the private sector.

5. Romney added, "If the unemployment rate was 7.8 percent when he took office. It's 7.8 percent now. But if you calculated that unemployment rate taking back the people who dropped out of the workforce, it would be 10.7 percent."

That's ridiculously untrue.

AND IT GOES ON AND ON...AT THE LINK!

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"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."Honore de Balzac

"Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it."~Harry S. Truman

Wealthy Republican incumbent Mary Bono Mack is locked in a tight and bitter Congressional race against a progressive Democrat with an inspiring story. While her campaign focuses on red-baiting her opponent (yes, they still do that in 2012) a new nonpartisan analysis shows that Mack scores "zero" on voting for the interests of the middle class.

Actually, make that less than zero. Mack has actively worked to undermine middle-class interests, including those of her own constituents, many of whom are struggling underwater homeowners. She's also displayed withering contempt for some residents of her own district, whose neighborhoods she laughingly agreed was a "third world toilet."

There's something particularly distasteful about seeing someone who earned her Congressional seat the "old-fashioned way" -- that is, through nepotism, cronyism and big-money politics -- describe the homes of her own constituents that way.

Goodbye, 2012 and it could have been a much better year for everyone, IF the Republicans had not been so successful at blocking bills which would have been good for the country. Obstructing any bill the Democrats and the President wanted to pass was about the only time the Repubs in Congress did anything at all....and their pledge of allegiance to Norquist in the House should be considered treason as their FIRST Pledge of Allegiance was to the Constitution when they took office...not to Grover Norquist!

Repubs, regardless of gender, continue to be the party of the ignorant!

A Republican lawmaker in New Mexico introduced a bill on Wednesday that would legally require victims of rape to carry their pregnancies to term in order to use the fetus as evidence for a sexual assault trial.

House Bill 206, introduced by state Rep. Cathrynn Brown (R), would charge a rape victim who ended her pregnancy with a third-degree felony for "tampering with evidence."

“Tampering with evidence shall include procuring or facilitating an abortion, or compelling or coercing another to obtain an abortion, of a fetus that is the result of criminal sexual penetration or incest with the intent to destroy evidence of the crime," the bill says.

Third-degree felonies in New Mexico carry a sentence of up to three years in prison.

Pat Davis of ProgressNow New Mexico, a progressive nonprofit opposing the bill, called it "blatantly unconstitutional" on Thursday.

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"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."Honore de Balzac

"Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it."~Harry S. Truman

How did the chair of the House ethics committee end up on a corporate-backed African safari? Meet the shadowy nonprofit that throws some of DC's finest junkets.

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In August 2012, as most members of Congress were hitting the campaign trail, three Republican lawmakers were enjoying an all-expenses-paid retreat at Ol Jogi, a private 66,000-acre ranch in Kenya's lush highlands. This "African Versailles" features a golf course, racetrack, dozens of man-made lakes, around 120 miles of road, more than 200 major buildings, and some 350 employees. The representatives—including Alabama's Jo Bonner, then the chairman of the House ethics committee—were ostensibly there to learn about threats to the ranch's idyllic landscapes and herds of wild animals, which were made famous in the Oscar-winning 1985 film Out of Africa.

Ol Jogi is owned by a trust benefiting the Wildenstein family, a secretive, embattled Franco-American aristocratic line; the clan has been accused of buying art looted by the Nazis, among other misdeeds. Over five generations, the Wildensteins have amassed a fortune estimated to be worth as much as $10 billion by dealing art, breeding horses, and—according to French authorities—evading a reported $800 million in taxes.

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"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."Honore de Balzac

"Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it."~Harry S. Truman

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) suggested on Friday that the FBI was unable to ask deceased Boston marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev about Islam during its 2011 interview with him due to President Obama’s “political correctness,” thus allowing the bombing to take place.

Gohmert said on the House floor that the Obama administration has prevented intelligence officials from discussing Islam. “It was in that 9/11 commission report, before this administration took over and implemented political correctness,” he said, arguing the FBI’s training manuals were “systematically purged” in 2011 to conform to Obama’s worldview.

Gohmert has proved no stranger to promoting wild theories related to Islam during his time in Congress. At various times, the Texan has stated that wide gun-ownership is needed to protect against Sharia law, that Obama intervened in Libya to allow al Qaeda to spread, and that the president is seeking to take credit for starting a new Ottoman Empire. Interfaith groups have called upon Gohmert in the past to drop his Islamophobia, seemingly to no effect.

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"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."Honore de Balzac

"Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it."~Harry S. Truman